The Beginning

Let The Right One In - 3

"Clothes on, let's go" Damon says heading to the door. "Wait" Stefan calls out, knowing what he was thinking off I go to the vampire and pull out to wooden sticks from his chest and he groans in pain.

Elena hoist stefan up and leads him out. "Can you take him the car?" I ask her. "Yeah." "Alright go" I order. "What about you two?" Elena asks.

"You rescue, we'll distract go!" I say.

Damon lunges at the vampire, knocking him to a wall. They fight and throw punches till two more vampires come and rip Damon off him. I watch from a distance.

They fight and I can't help it anymore, I rush to one of the vampires on Damon and stake him through the chest. The other vampire throws themself at me, knocking me down and the stake from my hand.

I struggle to move under their grip and try kicking at them before there blown off me. I sit up with a gasp and me and Damon look to see Alaric standing there with a crossbow.

"I'm going after fredrick" Damon says and rushes off. I stand in the center of the room with Alaric with a stake in hand, out of nowhere a vampire appears and bites Alaric in the neck.

They fall to the ground and I pull out the vervain and stab the vampire making it weak, Alaric gets up with heavy breathing. "Thanks" He says. I nod, panting heavily

"No problem" Damon appears at the end of the hallway "Fredricks gone"

I pant, today has been a whirlwind day.

"Let's get the hell out of here" I suggests. "I'm gonna kill him" Damon mutters as we exit.

We do a double take when we step outside and see a group of vampires surrounding us. Way to many to count.

"How many of those vervain darts you have left?" Damon asks. Beside me Alaric sigh

"Two"

"not gonna be enough" I mutter backing up and retrieving to the house.

"So what you said to get me to do this. About my wife, it's a life, wasn't it?" Alaric asks. "Yep" He responds.

The vampires thud on the door and a woman voice yells. "Stop. What's going on here?" We back away when the door opens and Pearl steps in. She looks at the dead bodies in shock and then at Damon.

"What did you do?"

"Me? Your merry little band of vampires spent the day torturing my brother" Damon says defending himself. Pearl straightens, not expecting that. "Trust me. The parties responsible for this will be dealt with"

"Our little arrangement doesn't work unless you learn how to control them" Damon threatens her. "This wasn't suppose to happen" She argues

"Well it did" Damon shoots back pushing past her to get to the door. "If I had a good side, not a way to get on it" He comments before leaving. Alaric and I follow after him. I need a shower.

I had to drop Alaric at the school since he had his car there, and then I had to drop off Damon, Stefan and Elena at the boarding house.
I park the car outside my house and check myself in the mirror. My hair is still damp from running around in the rain, but no visible bruises that indicate I was in a vampire rescue mission. I get out the car and frown when I see Sheriff Forbes car.

What the hell is going on?

I enter the house and my frown turns to concern when I see Sheriff Forbes sitting next to a crying Kelly. And Jeremy and Tyler sitting quietly at the table. They can't stand each other.

"Ariel.." Sheriff Forbes starts, standing up. I raise and eyebrow in confusion "Whats going on?"

Tyler stands up and makes his way to me, his eyes full of hurt. "Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?" I demand.

"They found Vicki"

Oh.

I try not to let the tears burst, not till he says the words I'm dreading.

"They found her body"

That's when I let the tears burst. "Where?"

"Caroline found her body, a couple of miles out of town, in the woods"

Tyler wraps his arms around me and I cry into his chest.
He buried her in the woods! Like a piece of trash.

I knew this day would come, I just didn't think it would be so soon. I part from Tyler and look at Kelly, Her eyes are stained with running mascara.

The sheriff meets my gaze and she excuses herself leaving me with Kelly. I sit down next to Kelly and grab her hands even though she doesn't move. "I'm sorry Kelly....auntie" I haven't called her that since I was a kid, since before she would take off.

It struck a cord in her and she leans into me and cries. I cry with her, holding her tight. The door opens and Elena steps through, she eyes me with Kelly and I doesn't say nothing, I just burry my head into Kelly. Like I use to after my mom died. We sit in silence, wallowing in pain.